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The Cecil B. DeMille
Classics Collection
(1914-1926)

Contents: The Squaw Man (1914), The Virginian (1914), Carmen (1915), The Cheat (1915), Joan the Woman (1917), The Little American (1917), A Romance of the Redwoods (1917), Old Wives for New (1918), The Whispering Chorus (1918), Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Wife? (1920), The Affairs of Anatol (1921), Miss Lulu Bett (1921), Manslaughter (1922), The Road to Yesterday (1925) and The Volga Boatman (1926).

2007 Passport Video edition

The Cecil B. DeMille Classics Collection (1914-1926),
black & white, 1622 minutes total, not rated,
including The Squaw Man (1914), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated, The Virginian (1914), black & white, 50 minutes, not rated, Carmen (1915), black & white, 57 minutes, not rated, The Cheat (1915), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, Joan the Woman (1917), black & white, 133 minutes, not rated, The Little American (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, A Romance of the Redwoods (1917), black & white, 90 minutes, not rated, Old Wives for New (1918), black & white, 72 minutes, not rated, The Whispering Chorus (1918), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated, Don’t Change Your Husband (1919), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated, Male and Female (1919), black & white, 115 minutes, not rated, Why Change Your Wife? (1920), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, The Affairs of Anatol (1921), black & white, 117 minutes, not rated, Miss Lulu Bett (1921), black & white, 71 minutes, not rated, Manslaughter (1922), black & white, 100 minutes, not rated, The Road to Yesterday (1925), black & white, 105 minutes, not rated, and The Volga Boatman (1926), black & white, 120 minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, DVD-5090, UPC 0-25493-50900-0.
Full-frame and windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, five single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 1.0 mon0 sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, multidisc keep case, $19.98.
DVD release date: 12 June 2007.
Country of origin: USA

Each film in this edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction prints.

The films are accompanied by canned music from a variety of audio sources.

One benefit to this low-budget collection is its inclusion of a couple of Mary Pickford films not available yet in high-quality home video editions, and the addition of a film directed by DeMille’s brother, writer and director William C. de Mille.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era CECIL B. DeMILLE films available on home video.

Other silent era GLORIA SWANSON films available on home video.

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